Comments on some of the illustrations derived by Phrenology from Comparative Anatomy, 1823

Mss.139.C65

Date: 1823 | Size: 1 volume(s), 1 volume, 24 p.
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Abstract

This collection consists of a rough and finished draft of Coates' lecture, which was delivered before the Phrenological Society of Philadelphia. In it he included a review of Boston professor John C. Warren's work on the nervous system.

Background note

Philadelphia physician Benjamin Horner Coates served as the attendant physician and clinical lecturer at Pennsylvania Hospital (1828-1841).

Digital objects note

This collection contains digital materials that are available in the APS Digital Library. Links to these materials are provided with context in the inventory of this finding aid. A general listing of digital objects may also be found here.

Collection Information

Provenance

Purchased from Hoosier Bookshop for $25.00 and accessioneded, 1/1957 (1563-65ms).

Early American History Note

This collection contains a lecture to the Phrenological Society of Philadelphia delivered by Benjamin Coates in 1823.

General note

This lecture was published in "The Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences" 7(1823):58-80.

Indexing Terms


Corporate Name(s)

  • Phrenological Society of Philadelphia

Genre(s)

  • Drafts (preliminary versions).
  • Educational Material
  • Notebooks

Personal Name(s)

  • Coates, Benjamin.
  • Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856

Subject(s)

  • Anatomy, Comparative.
  • Education
  • Medical illustration.
  • Medicine
  • Nervous system.
  • Phrenology.


Detailed Inventory

 Lecture delivered on the Phrenology of Comparative Anatomy with reference to the nervous system
  

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